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5 Tala German Railways
| Issuer | Samoa |
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| Year | 2010 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | The central field displays the Samoan coat of arms, featuring a quartered shield bearing a palm tree, the Southern Cross constellation of five stars, and wavy lines representing the sea, all surmounted by a Latin cross. The shield is flanked by two olive branches forming a wreath, and a scrolled banner below bears the national motto in Samoan. The legend SAMOA arcs along the upper periphery, while the denomination $5 appears in the lower field beneath the arms. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Samoa's commemorative program in the late 2000s and early 2010s leaned heavily on transportation themes with broad collector appeal, and this piece targeting German railway history fits that pattern precisely. The Deutsche Bahn and its predecessors built one of the most technically ambitious rail networks of the 19th and 20th centuries — by 1914, Germany operated over 60,000 kilometers of track, more than any other European nation.
KM#217 is a bullion-adjacent commemorative with no domestic circulation history.